The City of Paris "motivated to sanction owners who abuse"

• The City of Paris wants a transfer of rent management skills.

  The town hall believes it can carry out the checks better than the Paris prefecture.

• The so-called “3DS” law, adopted last February, allows cities that have adopted rent control to recover certain powers.

• In Paris, “a little more than a third of the owners do not respect the framework”, affirms Ian Brossat, assistant to Anne Hidalgo in charge in particular of housing.

The City of Paris could be the first in France to exercise rent control.

She asked for a transfer of powers from the prefecture to the town hall.

Since the adoption, last February, of the law relating to differentiation, decentralization, deconcentration, known as the “3DS law”, cities can now request it.

This proposal will be discussed from Tuesday, at the Paris Council.

Ian Brossat, communist assistant to Anne Hidalgo in charge of housing in particular, explains the challenges of this transfer of skills to

.

Why does the City of Paris want to control rents?

Since rent control was put in place in August 2019, the measure has been useful.

It has made it possible to limit the rise in rents which affects the purchasing power of Parisians.

But, despite its positive aspects, it is not applied enough.

According to the latest study by the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, a little over a third of landlords do not respect the framework and charge rents that exceed the threshold provided for by law.

They allow themselves to do so because there are not enough controls and sanctions.

Since 2019, the prefect, whose jurisdiction it is, has imposed ten fines.

This is largely insufficient to be effective.

What will change if the City of Paris recovers this competence?

We are very motivated to carry out checks and to sanction owners who abuse them.

At the City of Paris, we fought to set up the framework in the capital.

It is a device to which we are attached.

We have already carried out checks on Airbnb rentals so we are used to this type of process.

On the strength of this experience, we will be able to control the regulation of rents.

We will put the necessary means on the table.

We must put an end to abuse.

It is not normal for landlords to act as if the law does not exist and strangle their tenants with completely abusive rents.

What measures will be taken to enforce the rent control?

It's still too early to tell.

What is certain is that we want to be operational by September.

In the meantime, we will set up a dedicated team to carry out these checks.

Tenants will be able to enter the city directly, including on the Internet.

Then, we will check if their rent is indeed abusive.

At that time, we will take the necessary steps with the owner: either he agrees to return to the right path or he will be fined.

We are ready to initiate numerous legal proceedings, as we have already done with Airbnb.

This is what allowed us to start regulating this sector, which was developing in an anarchic way.

Will the City recover all powers concerning the supervision of rents?

We can only act on controls and sanctions.

There will be no leeway on the level of the ceilings.

It will always be fixed by the prefect.

It's already huge because the main flaw in the rent control system is the lack of controls.

It's as if we had invented speed limits without setting up speed cameras on the roads.

With these new skills, we will be much more efficient.

Is rent control enough to solve the housing crisis in Paris?

It is not enough but it is a very useful measure.

Paris is a city overwhelmingly made up of tenants.

The city has two-thirds tenants for one-third owners, the opposite of the national proportion.

But the housing policy walks on two feet.

There is a need both to supervise the private market, with the supervision of rents, and also to develop social housing, which escapes market logic.

The objective in Paris is to obtain 25% social housing in 2025. We are now at 23% so we are not far off.

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